Memory and Information Processing Quiz

Which type of memory is responsible for storing personal experiences and events?

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory

• Episodic memory

• Sensory memory

What is the term for the memory system that temporarily holds and manipulates information?

• Long term memory

• Working memory model

• Sensory store

• Episodic buffer

What is the term for the memory system that processes visual and spatial information?

• Phonological loop

• Visuo spatial sketchpad

• Episodic buffer

• Semantic memory

What is the term for the memory system that stores information about how to perform tasks?

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory

• Sensory memory

Which term refers to the discussion that occurs after an event, potentially altering memory of the event?

• Post event discussion

• Leading questions

• Retrieval failure

• Encoding failure

Give one evaluation point for the cognitive interview.

• It is time-consuming.

• It is always accurate.

• It requires no training.

• It is universally accepted.

Provide evidence for state dependent forgetting.

• Goodwin et al.

• Loftus and Palmer

• Baddeley and Hitch

• Peterson and Peterson

What problem does the Yerkes Dodson Inverted U Hypothesis overcome?

• Anxiety and performance relationship

• Memory decay over time

• Interference in learning

• State dependent learning

State the research study which shows that anxiety can lead to a reduction in the accuracy of EWT.

• Johnson and Scott

• Loftus and Palmer

• Baddeley and Hitch

• Peterson and Peterson

Why is Claire able to search through family photos and listen to music at the same time?

• Both tasks use the same cognitive resources.

• The tasks use different cognitive resources.

• Listening to music requires no cognitive effort.

• Searching photos is an automatic process.